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Former CBC Radio producer Karen Levine has been named to the Order of Canada for her groundbreaking journalism. We listen to her 2001 documentary Hana's Suitcase. It tells the story of a girl murdered in Auschwitz in 1944, and how her suitcase turned up in Tokyo 57 years later.
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In the new season of CBC podcast On Drugs, Geoff Turner examines his own relationship with alcohol, and how a deeply personal tragedy led him to ask who he would be without it.
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Carl Burke’s teenage son Harry died by suicide shortly after he fell victim to sexual extortion online. But proposed legislation aimed at addressing dangers on social media — the Online Harms Act — may now not become law because parliament has been prorogued until March. Burke tells Matt Galloway that playing politics shouldn’t get in the way of protecting children. For Linda Debassige, grand council chief of the Anishinabek Nation, it’s an embarrassment for Canada that a bill to ensure clean drinking water for First Nations may also not pass.
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Donald Trump is sounding increasingly serious about making Canada a part of the U.S., saying he’d use “economic force” to make this country the 51st state. Matt Galloway talks to former ambassador Jon Allen about how seriously we should take these threats, and how Ottawa should respond.
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Dr. Aura Kagan has been named to the Order of Canada for her work transforming the lives of people with aphasia, a language disorder that affects a person’s ability to communicate.
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Orly Israel was stuck in traffic trying to escape the wildfires ripping through Los Angeles, when he decided to turn around. He tells us what it was like trying to save his home from the roaring flames — staying until the last possible second.
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How do you figure out what's true, in a time when misinformation is rampant? Timothy Caulfield looks at how our information systems became so chaotic in his new book The Certainty Illusion: What You Don't Know and Why It Matters.
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There could be as many as half a million undocumented migrants in Canada, living and working in the shadows of society. Some of those migrants have shared their stories with the CBC’s Lyndsay Duncombe, from the challenges of daily life to their fight for legal status.
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Elon Musk recently pushed the false claim that the U.K.’s prime minister is "deeply complicit in mass rapes," and suggested the country needed to be liberated by the U.S. That’s just one example of how the tech billionaire is using his position and influence to meddle in international politics — what’s his endgame?
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Matt Galloway speaks with two incredible Canadians recently appointed to the Order of Canada. Lorin MacDonald has championed disability access and inclusion; and Colin Clarke is an educator who has shared his passion for music with young people.
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Justin Trudeau’s stubbornness and self-confidence helped his rise to power, but have served him “incredibly poorly on the way down,” says Gerald Butts, who was once one of the prime minister’s closest advisers. Matt Galloway discusses Trudeau’s resignation and legacy with Butts and Monte Solberg, a former Conservative cabinet minister under Stephen Harper.
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Noah Mintz was only in knee-deep water when he was almost paralyzed by a rogue wave, rising suddenly out of the ocean at twice the size of the waves around it. We learn more about these deadly walls of water in the documentary The Wave.
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Protestors in South Korea are demanding the arrest of President Yoon Suk Yeol, who declared martial law and is now accused of committing insurrection — with some observers pointing the finger of blame at what he was watching on YouTube.
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U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is threatening to retake control of the Panama Canal, but Panama's president says it's not for sale. Dennis M. Hogan has studied this critical artery of global trade for years, he explains how it’s yet again become a centre of geopolitical tension.
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Maureen Palmer’s partner Mike Pond has been an alcoholic for decades, but the couple say trying to quit completely never worked — and that focusing on abstinence could be doing more harm than good for some people who struggle with alcohol addiction. In their new book, You Don’t Have to Quit, they offer 20 strategies to help a loved one drink less, informed by Pond’s experience of being mostly sober.
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Justin Trudeau says he will resign as prime minister after the Liberal Party picks a new leader. Matt Galloway discusses what happens next — and when Canadians can expect an election — with former Conservative strategist Chad Rogers, Liberal strategist Susan Smith and Brad Lavigne, a former national director of the NDP.
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We get to know a few of the extraordinary people just named to the Order of Canada: hate crime expert Barbara Perry, food insecurity expert Valerie Tarasuk and artist Ruth Abernethy.
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Julie Nystrom was so worried that her teenage daughter would die from a drug overdose, she hired a private investigator to track down the man selling her drugs. In The Current’s documentary Everybody Loves Jay, which first aired last month, she said she wants police to do more to protect teens against dealers and the toxic drug supply.
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The news these days can feel relentlessly grim, but there are stories of progress and positivity buried in the bad. Angus Hervey, editor of a website called Fix The News, shares some of those stories and explains why the audience also has a role in helping the media to highlight them.
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Journalist Elizabeth Renzetti says the fight for women's rights is far from over, from persistent wage inequality to a global backlash over reproductive rights. In October, she spoke to Rebecca Zandbergen about her book What She Said: Conversations About Equality.
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